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This dreamy cream cheese chocolate pound cake recipe is decadent and indulgent and oh so easy to whip up.

This chocolate pound cake recipe with cream cheese marries chocolate and cream cheese for a sinfully delicious, heavenly union of flavors. It is a sure crowd pleaser that will have everyone’s taste buds happy dancing and begging for seconds.

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Cream Cheese Chocolate Pound Cake Ingredients

1 cup butter room temperature
8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
3 cups sugar
6 eggs room temperature
2¼ cups all purpose flour – you can also use cake flour
¾ cup self rising flour
½ cup cocoa powder
¼ cup milk room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla

How To Make Easy Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan or 10 to 15 cup bundt pan or (2) 5×9 loaf pans. You can also spray pan with baking spray.
Preheat oven to 350℉
Sift flours. Mix or whisk together sifted flours with cocoa in medium bowl and set aside.
Cream butter and cream cheese.
Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time. Mix each egg until yellow is just gone before adding the next.
Add flour/cocoa mixture alternately with the milk.
Beat in vanilla
Pour or spoon batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Let cake cool for 10 minutes and release.

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Best Cream Cheese Chocolate Pound Cake Recipe Tips

Here are several tips to help you make the best chocolate cream cheese pound cake recipe ever:

Use room temperature butter, cream cheese, eggs and milk in this chocolate cream cheese pound cake recipe. Room temperature ingredients blend much easier and produce a cake with even interior texture.
Thoroughly cream your sugar and butter in the old fashioned cream cheese chocolate pound cake recipe. This will cause the air to be whipped into the batter, so the chocolate cake will rise during baking.
Add eggs one at a time to chocolate cream cheese pound cake from scratch. Beat each egg just until the yellow disappears, before adding the next egg.
Overbeating the eggs can cause the batter to overflow out of the pans while baking and create a crust that separates from the cake as it cools.
After adding flour to the cake, make sure you don’t over mix the batter. Bon Appetit says, that overmixing can cause the batter to deflate, and all your hard work creaming will be reversed. The result will be a dense, tough pound cake.
After removing the cream cheese chocolate pound cake from the oven, allow it to cool for 10 minutes before removing. This 10 minute cooling time allows the pound cake to firm enough to remove from the pan without breaking.

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How To Serve Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This chocolate cream cheese pound cake bake from scratch is irresistibly delicious served naked (a.k.a. plain). However, there are so many ways to jazz this cream cheese chocolate pound cake up and take it to new levels of Yum.

Drizzle or spoon chocolate ganache on the cream cheese chocolate pound cake.
Drizzle or spoon on chocolate ganache and then top with mini chocolate chips.
Make it a chocolate pound cake with glaze by drizzling on a chocolate glaze.
Make it a chocolate pound cake with icing by piping on chocolate cream cheese icing or chocolate butter cream icing.
Serve the slices with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Get fruity and serve this cream cheese chocolate cake with strawberries, raspberries or cherries.
Crank up the SINsational factor and pour some melted Nutella over the whole cake or on an individual slice.

How To Know When Pound Cake Is Done

Have you ever had this happen? You’ve been dreaming and drooling about biting into a slice of homemade, from scratch pound cake all day; however, when you take that first bite the pound cake is dry and overdone or it’s not done and you bite into batter?

Trying to figure out when a pound cake is done can be treacherous territory. Pound cakes can be quite stubborn when it comes to revealing their doneness. This post from Bonappetit helps us navigate and determine if our homemade pound cake is truly ready to devour or not.

Bonappetit says, when the kitchen comes alive with that delicious pound cake aroma, insert a cake tester or toothpick (I use a sharp knife) into the thickest part of the pound cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is done.

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Why Does My Cream Cheese Pound Cake Fall?

It hurts my heart to see a fallen pound cake. You’re anticipating that rise in the cake and that crack through the middle of your cream cheese pound cake and then wank, wank, wank, you’re cream cheese pound cake sinks. Ugh, the tragedy of it all!

According to Martha Stewart there are several reasons cream cheese pound cakes fall. The most common reason is the pound cake was exposed to cold air before it was completely baked through. This happens when you open the oven door to often while the cake is baking or you take it out of the oven before it’s fully baked.

How To Freeze Pound Cake

Pound cakes freeze really well, so don’t be afraid to freeze your cream cheese chocolate pound cake. I’m convinced pound cakes actually taste better after serving some freezer time.

To store your pound cake in the freezer, wrap it in a layer of plastic wrap and then a layer of aluminum foil and place it in the freezer. You can also wrap it in a single layer of plastic wrap or aluminum foil and place it in a Ziploc Bag or an airtight container. Pound cake can be frozen from 4 to 6 months.

You can keep this cream cheese chocolate pound cake and any pound cake at room temperature for up to two days and in the fridge up to 7 days.

Why Cream Cheese Chocolate Pound Cake Is The Best

This recipe for chocolate cream cheese pound cake is the absolute best. With just 9 simple ingredients, it’s an easy cream cheese chocolate pound cake recipe that comes together quickly. This chocolate cream cheese pound cake recipe then offers delectable results with its rich, intoxicating chocolate flavor and moist, dense pound cake texture. It’s a sure crowd pleaser and is perfect for any occasion.

If you have any comments or questions about this easy cream cheese chocolate pound cake recipe feel free to reach out via the comment section or the contact page. I would love to hear if you made it, or any of my other recipes, and what you think.

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